Viewing by month: May 2008
ColdFusion Open-Source Update - May 27, 2008
Posted on May 27, 2008
Five new projects and five updates this week. Yes, its Tuesday and not Monday but I was away on vacation in Kennebunkport, Maine hoping to bump into George, Sr. He was there and usually addresses the Memorial Day parade crowd but apparently he got ill and didn't make it. Oh well. Guess he didn't hear I was in town.
Does ColdFusion's Cost Inhibit Its Development?
Posted on May 22, 2008
This post is to throw something out there that has been running through my head lately, so forgive any rambling. This shouldn't be read as a dig at Adobe or the ColdFusion team in any way, just a hypothesis that I have been mostly debating with myself and have decided to solicit opinions on. I am playing a bit of devil's advocate here since I am not totally convinced of my own argument, nonetheless the goal is to solicit discussion. As some of you may know, I am openly skeptical about Open BlueDragon and its value or importance to CFML developers. I think Adobe owns this game, and while I like having alternative engines available, let's just say that if Adobe drops ColdFusion, Open BlueDragon isn't going to save CFML. One last caveat...while open-source is relevant to the discussion here, my intent isn't directly to advocate open-sourcing ColdFusion.
ColdFusion Open-Source Update - May 19, 2008
Posted on May 19, 2008
Four new projects and five updates this week. This week featured a lot of news out of the Adobe Community Summit that can't be shared...but apparently it was really cool! If you knew, you would be excited. Sorry, its just my conference envy speaking. ;) No summit or WebManiacs for me...but catch me at CFUnited.
Joining Universal Mind!
Posted on May 16, 2008
I am very excited to say that I have accepted an offer to join the team at Universal Mind! In my opinion, Universal Mind really has put together an amazing team of extremely talented folks and I am looking forward to learning from them. In particular, I think this will offer me a great opportunity to grow as a Flex developer while still keeping one foot in the ColdFusion world.
In fact, Universal Mind have told me they still have positions open; so feel free to contact me if you are interested.
On another note, there are a lot of people at Sun Life that I will miss a lot despite my short time there. I would list you all, but honestly its a long list of folks and you know who you are. Thanks to you!
ColdFusion Open-Source Update - May 12, 2008
Posted on May 12, 2008
Only one new project and three relatively minor updates this week but the one new project garnered a lot of attention. That project is Oscar Arevalo's new ColdFusion based CMS and portal manager called ColdBricks. In addition, there was a great deal of heated debate on the proposed license change for the next version of FarCry and a lot of talk about the future of Mach-II and Model-Glue. Now that conference season has officially begun, it seems as though the debates are in full swing in the community!